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INDEX. 



Poets' (British) allusions to angling, 

 25-27, 



" Poke-net" of Solway, 187. 



Pollutions in rivers as affecting sal- 

 mon, 116. 



legislation for, 201. 



how far prevented in England 



by Act of 1861, 173. 



Polwarth's (Lord) expression on 

 salmon being over-fished, 14. 



Ponds, Mr. Shaw's experiments in, 

 39 ; stimulating effects of, 50. 



Pope on fish and angling, 27. 



Populating rivers with fish, 222. 



Poyning's law, 136. 



" Prescription " for the use of fixed 

 engines, how to be treated, 189. 



Prices, Rise of, 18. 



of food not diminished, 216. 



Produce increased by adoption of 

 recent Acts, 165. 



Productiveness of water, 2'21. 



Property in salmon-fisheries ancient, 

 valuable, and marketable, 6, 10. 



fixed engines as, 180. 



in fisheries not at owner's dis- 

 posal to make the best of, 142. 



Protection of salmon in Tay, 109-111. 



Public, interest of in salmon supply 

 being cared for, 13. 



Purification of rivers and preserva- 

 tion offish, 202. 



Putt, what it was, 158. 



QcAKTBR-SESsiONS, power of extend- 

 ing or varying close -time in Eng- 

 land, 174. 



Queensferry, Salmon fishery at, 94. 



Questions about salmon, 83. 



Quietness of anglers, 29. 



Rabbit-wabrenbr and salmon-fisher 

 compared, 280. 



Railway system as affecting pollution 



of rivers, 206. 

 Railways now carry sea-fish to inland 



districts, 217. 

 " Raise-net" of Solway, 188. 

 Ramsbottom (Mr.), experiments at 



Doohulla, in Gralway, 46-56. 

 Range, great in size of salmon, small 



in size of grilse, 78. 

 Ray and Willoughby quoted, 48. 

 Redd, Fish on, does not take the lure, 



152. 

 Redgauntlet, allusions to fixed nets in 



Solway in, 187, 188. 

 Reformation, Acts about salmon after, 



138. 

 Reformation may be wrought, 228. 

 Remedies, non-legislative, 214-234. 

 Rental of fisheries on Tweed, 99-107. 



on Tay, 107-112. 



of Tay begins to rise when 



season for fishing is shortened, 113. 

 Resistance by hooked fish no proof of 



suffering, 23. 

 Retrenchment, how to be introduced, 



209-234. 

 Revenue (recovered) from titles to 



sea-fishing in Scotland, 199. 

 Rhone, Sir Humphry Davy on 



angling in the, 28. 

 Richard ii.. Acts of, in force till 1861, 



135. 

 Richardson on Arctic salmon, 5. 

 Richmond's (Duke of) fisheries on 



Spey, value of, 9. 

 Right of proprietors to use fixed 



engines, question treated, 181. 

 Rigour of old Scottish Statutes, 136. 

 Rings, Smolts marked by, 55. 

 River-courses, are they only natural 



drains ? 211. 

 Rivers, are they to be transformed 



into common sewers ? 205, 207. 



